Venezuela's Cuban Election

The Castro regime wasn't going to allow an easy victory for the opposition candidate who has pledged to stop sending oil to Havana.

By

Mary Anastasia O'Grady

April 14, 2013 6:11 p.m. ET

Venezuela held a presidential election on Sunday to replace left-wing populist Hugo Chávez, whose death was announced on March 5.

The United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) put up Nicolás Maduro, a Cuba-trained ideologue and the man the cancer-stricken Chávez anointed as his heir in December. Facing off against him was Justice First candidate Henrique Capriles, governor of the state of Miranda and the first politician since the...